A losing investment ...
Posted on 03/24/2016 8:05:44 AM PDT by ealgeone
My wife drinks brandy and Coke...she is not enthused with the boycott!!!
It is kind of a mixed blessing. I can swim, but I don't float worth a damn. I tolerate heat better than most people, but I'd probably succumb to hypothermia quicker than most if I got stuck out in the cold.
“You are right I don’t acknowledge that because it’s impossible to work out “five times” as hard as I do because there aren’t enough hours in the day.”
Well, there certainly aren’t enough hours in the day to exceed that level of superciliousness and sanctimony, I’ll give you that.
There are 168 hours a week. Subtract 42 hours to sleep and 40 hours to work, and you’re left with 86 hours to exercise. That’s roughly 12.2 hours per day.
You work out 3 hours a day, every day of the week, including Christmas and your birthday? At 2 hours a day, people can work 5 times as hard as you, not counting days off.
But why even bother with all that? You are strong, and I am weak. You have will power, and all fat people merely make excuses. You are wonderful, and I am slime.
If that’s what it takes to make you feel good about yourself, have at it.
You left out sleep which is an essential part of training. People who train know this. But, if taking the position that your failures are just part of your unchangeable body chemistry is what it takes to make you feel good about yourself then have at it. More power to you.
“If that’s what it takes to make you feel good about yourself”
I think it’s pretty clear which of us is doing that.
“You left out sleep which is an essential part of training”
No, that was the first thing I listed. That rather makes it look like you’re not making any effort whatsoever to understand what I have said.
:-)
I’m not either as I like Coke! But they’re forcing our hands on this issue.
In 2001 I bought a recumbent bicycle. Went on a strict 1000 calorie/day diet that was low carb. Rode the bike at least 150 miles a week.
At the end of six weeks I weighed myself (I had avoided weighing myself as the weeks went along; not easy :). I had lost a total of TWO POUNDS. Very disappointed.
IMHO, there is a lot to losing weight that we aren't aware of. Yet.
“IMHO, there is a lot to losing weight that we aren’t aware of. Yet.”
Absolutely, and yet the calorie Nazis allow not the slightest uncertainty to riffle the surface of their complacency.
Hang it all. I'll boycott them after this case is gone. Thanks for the heads up.
I’d call but I’m drunk on rum and coke. :-)
This is the classic example of what I was describing above. I see your experience every single year at the gym beginning January 2nd. The "new years resolution crowd". A large group of new faces show up on January second, burn themselves out with steady state cardio and a crash diets and 90% are gone by the end of February. 6 Weeks? You didn't even give it enough time for your body metabolism to change. What were your expectations? They were obviously inflated. You didn't put all that extra weight on in 6 weeks and it's not going to come off that fast. And even if it did, fast weight loss plans almost always result in the person putting it all back on, and more, within a year and a half.
I don't know how old you are but for anyone over 40 patience is essential. The day you start a weight loss program weigh yourself. Then don't look at a scale for at least 6 months. If you are more than 30 pounds overweight I would start the first 60 days just walking (either outside or on a treadmill) for an hour a day and begin tapering off calories. After that 60 day period, begin lifting weights three days a week and doing some form of short intense cardio at least three days a week. Adding muscle mass is essential because it increases your resting metabolism.
Look, in any given day 60% of the calories you burn are a result of your basal metabolic rate ("BRM" or resting metabolism) - the effort you body expends just to function and live. 30% is from any exercise and 10% is from the digestive process itself. This shows that increasing your BRM is the most efficient way to burn more calories - it is the low hanging fruit. Building more muscle increases that BRM. Steady state cardio (long moderate cardio activity) is the least efficient way to lose weight because you body adapts to it very quickly and you have to keep increasing the time you spend for steadily decreasing results.
You must be patient and stick with it for at least a year. Stick to it - it requires discipline, dedication and persistence. This is why more weight loss books and programs spend so much time on motivation. Burn out and lack of motivation to keep going are the greatest enemies of weight loss. A person has to be kept motivated to keep showing up, day after day, week after week and month after month. If you spend a year exercising 5 to 6 days a week and reducing your calories gradually from day one you will most certainly be amazed at the results you see at the end of that year.
If you don’t think Coke has a vote in the Ga legislature, you don’t know Ga politics...
Indeed, wouldn’t weight loss be one reliable way to measure how many more calories are being burned vs. consumed?
Or should we say burned vs retained? Maybe that is where the confusion lies.
I personally dislike the taste of Coke and have for years. Many years back though I liked it; it may have been the change from cane to beet sugars.
More states joining Georgia would be a lot more effective.
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